12/06/2026
π’οΈ TRUMP CONFIRMS: 200+ SHIPS, 100 MILLION BARRELS β IRAN NEVER KNEW
π WORLD MAGAZINE | Friday, June 12, 2026 | Breaking News & Geopolitics
WASHINGTON D.C. β President Trump has confirmed in writing what he first revealed casually on live television: the United States secretly guided over 200 ships carrying more than 100 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz β without Iran ever detecting the operation.
In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that the effort was a "wildly successful" covert logistics operation, describing how U.S. forces moved tankers through the contested strait under cover of darkness, with vessels running "no lights" to avoid detection by Iranian radar β radar Trump claims was already degraded by earlier U.S. strikes.
The confirmation follows Trump's surprise admission days earlier at an Oval Office bill signing, where he revealed that 22 ships had been moved in a single night. His own Energy Secretary was forced to publicly downplay the remarks afterward, calling them "casual."
The operation underscores just how central the Strait of Hormuz has become to the entire Iran conflict. The narrow waterway β through which roughly a fifth of the world's oil normally passes β has seen traffic drop by 90-95% since the war began, contributing directly to oil prices surging above $90 a barrel and inflation climbing to 4.2%, the highest in three years.
Iran has not officially responded to the confirmation, though the revelation comes at an extremely delicate moment β just as Tehran and Washington remain locked in fragile, on-again-off-again peace negotiations in Qatar.
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Sources: Truth Social, PBS NewsHour, ABC News, Yahoo News